“You’ve got mail”, my flatmate Peter announced. It was September 1977. I was lounging in bed one Saturday morning in… Read more A New Home in Colchester

“You’ve got mail”, my flatmate Peter announced. It was September 1977. I was lounging in bed one Saturday morning in… Read more A New Home in Colchester
For those of you who have read about my life and times coming out as a 23 year old in… Read more The Gay Left and Me in London
In my last post, I told you I was going to talk about Garry, a flatmate of ours from that… Read more Garry – A Lesson in Love
Here is my diary entry for my first day of my new life in London: August 29, 1973. “Land from… Read more Starting a New Life in London – 1973
First time to the Outback – Early 1973 Having lived in Sydney for most of 1972 by now, I couldn’t… Read more Into the Australian Outback
“Sex is a revolutionary act” was one of the central political messages of Gay Liberation that I learned in Sydney… Read more Bars, Beats, Bogs and Sex
In early 1972, I landed in Sydney from Canada just as Sydney Gay Liberation was taking off and, as you’ve… Read more Living the Gay Liberation Life
My previous posts described how the burgeoning Sydney Gay Liberation (of which I was a burgeoning member) tackled what we… Read more Sydney Gay Liberation Takes On the Anglican Church
OK. I will confess that this “Come Out!” poster is not from Sydney where I was living at the time,… Read more Out Of The Closets and Into The Streets
Of course, that’s not literally true, but almost. My 15 months in Australia from early 1972 certainly bumped me up… Read more Australia Made Me Very Gay